Introduction

Last week we were introduced to Our Family Tree. It is an app on your phone that you carry with you anywhere you have your phone. It is a great tool to sharing the Gospel. This week we discuss another technique to sharing the Gospel. This, once again, is an app for your phone. This app for leading you and someone else through a gospel conversation was created by the NAMB. It is called 3 Circles.

Before discussing this tool with you, I want to remind everyone why we are doing this. It is because it is all our mission and calling to go and tell. We must forever have in our sight the truth that the gospel saves. We must forever be reminded that the Gospel not only saves, it is the only thing that saves.

Opening Passage

Romans 1:14–16 NKJV

I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to unwise. So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

Outline

3 Circles

3 Circles is just simply what it states that it is. It is a Gospel presentation that uses three circles that build off of one another. The app itself allows you to tap through the sequences and discuss each circle. The three circles are:

Circle #1: God’s Design

Circle #2: Our Brokenness

Circle #3: The Gospel

Circle #1 : God’s Design

Through God’s design, He reveals Himself to His creation

Romans 1:20 NKJV

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,

Psalm 19:1 NKJV

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork.

God created a world that was perfect

Genesis 1:31 NKJV

Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Sin entered into God’s perfect world world and distorted it

Romans 3:23 NKJV

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 6:23 NKJV

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Because of sin and the distortion it brought, we now find ourselves in a state of brokenness.

Circle #2: Brokenness

Sin brought brokenness into the world. We see it all around us: divorce, sickness, death, drugs, etc.

Sin caused God’s perfect creation to break

Sin caused God’s perfect creation to rebel against her creator

Romans 1:25 NKJV

who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Sin caused God’s creation to face death and separation

James 1:13–15 NKJV

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

Brokenness leads one to seek something better

The something better that everyone needs to hear is the Gospel.

Circle #3: Gospel

People need a remedy for their sickness/brokenness

God has supplied that remedy for us, Jesus Christ

John 3:16 NKJV

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Romans 5:8 NKJV

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Hearing isn’t enough, one must repent and believe

Mark 1:15 NKJV

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”

Ephesians 2:8–9 NKJV

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

Romans 10:9 NKJV

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

God brings restoration to the broken hearted through a relationship with Him

Philippians 2:13 NKJV

for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Ephesians 2:10 NKJV

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

What should I do now?

The ABCs of Savlation

A — Admit | Admit that your sinner and in need of a savior

B — Believe | Believe that Jesus Christ lived, died, was buried, and was risen to life for the penalty of your sin

C — Confess | Confess your sins and call upon Jesus Christ for your salvation

Romans 10:9–10 NKJV

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Romans 10:13 NKJV

For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Conclusion

We have been called. We have been charged. We have been equipped. We must go.